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- noun A
bacterial infection ofcitrus trees
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The bacterial disease is also known as huanglongbing HLB or yellow dragon disease.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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The bacterial disease is also known as huanglongbing HLB or yellow dragon disease.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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The bacterial disease is also known as huanglongbing HLB or yellow dragon disease.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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The bacterial disease is also known as huanglongbing HLB or yellow dragon disease.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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The disease -- which is also called huanglongbing or yellow dragon disease -- has already caused catastrophic damage to orange growing operations in Florida and Brazil, the report said.
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The Asian citrus psylid is not a problem in itself, but carries an incurable bacterial disease called huanglongbing (HLB).
Boing Boing 2009
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Inspectors trapped the bugs in Sacramento, sent them off to a lab, and determined they were not carriers of citrus greening disease, also called huanglongbing, or HLB.
unknown title 2009
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Jamaica's ministry of agriculture said Tuesday that it ordered the closure of the nurseries and banned the sale of all citrus plants in order to protect the $43 million industry from the citrus greening disease known as HLB huanglongbing.
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This video provides information about the citrus disease, huanglongbing also known as citrus greening.
WN.com - Articles related to Florida seen at risk from Caribbean dengue epidemic 2010
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This video provides information about the citrus disease, huanglongbing also known as citrus greening.
WN.com - Articles related to Florida seen at risk from Caribbean dengue epidemic 2010
hernesheir commented on the word huanglongbing
The internationally accepted name for citrus greening disease. It is spread by sap-sucking Asian citrus psyllids that carry the Candidatus bacterium that causes the disease.
August 28, 2009